Whakapapa and Tuakiri: Strengthening ancestry and identity | Kaye-Maree Dunn | TEDxAuckland
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2022
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Underneath TEDxAuckland and this talk is the Māori whakatauki (proverb): ‘kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua’ (I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past).
To Kaye-Maree Dunn, these words speak to her experience of reclaiming the mātauranga (knowledge) of her whakapapa (ancestry) that was lost when she was separated from her whānau (family) at a young age. In a culture where there is a far greater focus on who you are rather than what you do, whakapapa not only encompasses your history and genealogy, but your identity too. This is why it is Kaye-Maree’s mission to unearth histories by building an indigenous designed and led archival platform: because it is not enough to exist in the now. To truly move forward, you must always look back.
After the passing of her mother and the subsequent separation from her father and brother, Kaye-Maree Dunn, as a child, found herself away from her whanau (family), iwi (tribe) and, ultimately, her ahurea tuakiri (cultural identity). Decades on, Kaye-Maree is not only dedicated to connecting the dots of her own whakapapa (ancestry), but giving others the tools to do so too.
In 2018, Kaye-Maree started Āhau, a blockchain-based whānau data platform that is reconnecting indigenous people and pākehā (people of non-Māori descent) with their past and identities. She also serves within the C-suite of Indigital Blockchain Limited and Making Everything Achievable Limited. For Kaye-Maree, though, her extensive work within Māori-specific community and economic development projects not only connects her with others but also with her past, present and future. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Russell Crowe is Māori, and identifies with Ngāti Porou through one of his maternal great-great-grandmothers. His paternal grandfather, John Doubleday Crowe, was a Welsh man from Wrexham, while another of his grandparents was Scottish. His other ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish.
So we see there is Welsh, English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish blood in him…..but one of his maternal great-great-grandmothers was maori and so…. Russell Crowe is Māori.
I heard that.
You are inspiring!
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To tell yourself the truth. Stop the BIG lie. Get a DNA and ask your true ancestors you have no more shame.
Hi Kia,
Please explain more... I want to understand what you mean?
I just watched the Ted Talk & interested in using the platform. Respectfully asking you to expand on your comment.
Peter.
She touched on DNA tests and genealogical companies, she questioned whether it's ethical for corporations to have this abundance of information on our families - yet we don't know them or what they could do with that data. They are not reliable places for Māori to find out more information about their ancestry. Those tests will only show general places of ancestral migration. Which is pointless because Māori know they came from the Pasifika, Polynesian Islands, Southeast Asia and that most are mixed with European and other heritage. Data sovereignty is Tino Rangatiratanga.
YOu don't need a DNA test to know your whakapapa, my ancestry is maori through my mothers tuhoe line my great great grandfather was Tuterangi Tepairi (see bio on Google) my English blood lies in the Irish name ryland and the english man William John poulgrain all of which are part of new zealand history and available on google,,,, to have so much mixed blood does not mean you shouldn't just identify with one over the other,,, but my personal choice is so I would not forget where I came from and who I was my pepeha identifies me as maori, my genealogy identifies my pakeha history